We’re camping one night at the Grand Canyon. We’ve been here many times before so we weren’t interested in visiting the village or riding the bus to the tourist spots. Instead we had one goal in mind - biking the rim trail from our campground to Hermit’s Rest. It was an epic 20 mile bike ride with a lot of UP.
I had just conquered the hill up to Maricopa Point. Once I caught my breath I appreciated the breathtaking views.
I keep yelling at Ned to stop moving! I’m terrified of heights and poor Ned got the full mom treatment. He kept saying, “I’m 8 ft from the edge, I’m not going anywhere!”. (Megan and Josh can you relate?).
This is the best bike ride in the western U.S. Epic views for 10 miles. We had the road to ourselves and were surprised by how few people were riding the bus and doing the rim road. Even our campground is empty. I booked our campsite in July. As you arrive it says the campground is full. There are probably 5 people in our entire loop - and this campground has hundreds of sites! I think they capped all the sites due to covid. I ain’t complaining, lucky us.
Finally reaching Hermit’s Rest. We took a few minutes to go into the park service store...
...and heck ya bought an ice cream! Felt like we kinda deserved it after that ride and can you think of anything better than eating an ice cream looking at this view?
We finally made it back to the campsite. I’m so tired!! Margaritas at the campsite tonight. Ned kept it together to make us bbq chicken, broccoli and brown rice. My contribution???
uh....writing this blog?
Thanks Ned!
We have no cell service at the campsite. If you’re reading this blog it means we were able to saddle up once more and ride to the village in search of cell. Guess who’s sleeping well tonight?
